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The asbestos floor tile identification articles in this series illustrate that with the combination of design appearance and an idea of floor tile age, many asbestos-containing floor tiles or sheet flooring products can be reliably identified even before confirmation by a test by a certified asbestos testing laboratory.

Asbestos Floor Tiles – Everything You Need to Know Asbestos floor tiles are fairly common in properties of a certain age and needn’t be a reason to panic, you may not even need to remove them. Nevertheless it pays to know how to identify them and asbestos floor tile removal is a serious business.

Unlike many asbestos-containing materials, vinyl asbestos flooring is generally safe to be around. But that changes as soon as you decide to remove it. Vinyl is a type of plastic that has long been a popular material for floor tiles and sheets. Old vinyl products that contain asbestos remain in many ...

Asbestos is actually a silicate-based material that used to be commonly used in building construction for surfaces as common as walls or floor tiles. The risk for many people who live or work in buildings with old flooring is that it’s hard to know if the building has asbestos floor tiles just by looking.

Asbestos floor tiles will not release toxic fibers and pose a health risk unless they are disturbed. Sanding, sawing, drilling, or tearing the tiles out, however, can release fibers into the air ...

You could also cover the tiles with new vinyl flooring, linoleum, or even ceramic tiles. However, as a favor to future owners of your house, make some note of the fact that asbestos tiles are under the new flooring.

The prohibitions against asbestos that do exist were rolled out in the 1980s, so if your house has floor tiles that predate the Reagan era, when the EPA published its asbestos ban and phase-out rule, they could contain asbestos, and they could be a health hazard.

Previously asbestos floor tiles were available in the size 9×9, and more recently 12×12. These tiles were vinyl-asbestos floor tiles that were manufactured from polyvinyl chloride polymers. These tiles usually consisted of a mixture of limestone, asbestos, plasticizer, stabilizer, binder, and pigment.

If the flooring in question was installed between 1952 and 1986, your vinyl flooring might contain asbestos. One TV commercial from Armstrong in 1965, for its Excelon Vinyl Tiles, has the narrator talking about "vinyl asbestos tiles with the beauty and texture of a hand-crafted stone-chip design."